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Interview with Keith Lee

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Discs 1-2	Audio	Supervised use	*MGZTL 4-2711 Discs 1-2	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.		Audio	Supervised use	*MGZMT 3-2711	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

Additional Authors

Cole, Barbara, 1928-

Description

2 sound discs (ca. 85 min.): digital; 4 3/4 in. +

Summary

Disc 1 (ca. 49 min.). Keith Lee speaks with Barbara Cole about his personal background and early dance training; while still in high school working with George Balanchine; the abundance of opportunities that came to him early in his career including working with Harkness Youth Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre; his younger students performing Doris Humphrey's The shakers; dancing José Limón's The moor's pavane; his experience as the first African American man to sign a permanent contract with American Ballet Theatre; more on the issue of race in dance; working with Antony Tudor, in particular in connection with his work Dark elegies; working with Agnes de Mille when he danced in her Fall river legend.
Disc 2 (ca. 35 min.). Keith Lee speaks with Barbara Cole about his decision to leave American Ballet Theatre; working with Alvin Ailey at American Ballet Theatre on Ailey's The river; auditioning successfully for the workshop production of Jelly's last jam; working on the filming of Harald Lander's Etudes while at American Ballet Theatre; his first experiences teaching and the developing of his teaching skills; the progression of his career towards the founding of the Dance Theatre of Lynchburg; other aspects of his creative life; his book On the threshold of the dream (c2007); combining work and family; the role he sees himself for in the world.

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Note

Interview with Keith Lee conducted by Barbara Cole on Aug. 12, 2010 at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City as part of the Oral History Project.
For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-2711.

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Funding (note)

The assistance of the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts is gratefully acknowledged

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2711

OCLC

758383688

Author

Lee, Keith, interviewee.

Title

Interview with Keith Lee [sound recording].

Imprint

2010.

Funding

The assistance of the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts is gratefully acknowledged

Restricted Access

Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Added Author

Cole, Barbara, 1928- interviewer.

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2711

*MGZMT 3-2711